Quotes About Failure

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

He was telling the story and the failures and the endless journey of mankind. They got tricked and trapped and bamboozled, but it was a great journey. And no demon that was ever foaled could know the inwardness of it -- it took a man to do that.

Inside ever anarchist is a failed dictator

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el arte.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us...

For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail

Success has ruined many a man.

I settled on a game called I am a contribution. Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side. It is not arrived at by comparison.

A failure or so, in itself, would not matter, if it did not incur a loss of self-esteem and of self-confidence. But just as nothing succeeds like success, so nothing fails like failure.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.

Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.

For years, President Obama has chastised Republicans, used immigrants as props for political purposes, and time and again deflected responsibility from his own party's failure to act on immigration reform.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Those who refuse to liberalise and globalise are doomed to failure.

Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.

Something like Pinterest would scare the hell out of me. With $5 billion valuation - regardless how sound those numbers are - wouldn't be one that I would start, given what I would consider the risk of failure.

We're conditioned to let businesses fail, regardless of how much we like them. We believe that if the market doesn't want that bookstore to exist, then it shouldn't exist.

I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.